Digital Services
The Edwin Scharff Museum offers a wide range of opportunities to deepen and supplement your visit to the museum in the digital space.
In the near future, you will find the museum’s online collection here. The aim of the online collection is to give you access to as many of the museum’s objects as possible. The addition of in-depth information and new scientific findings is an ongoing process.
On our blog, you may find out background information on everyday museum life, news such as access to the collection and take a look behind the scenes (in German). Our YouTube channel combines funny videos around the hands-on exhibitions, informative interviews and short films, which are created by the museum working groups, for example. Some of the videos are in German, some don’t use spoken language at all, so feel free to explore!
The free media guide to the Edwin Scharff Permanent Collection accompanies you on your visit to the museum.
The “Maxplatz” in Neu-Ulm is an art project in the public space by Jozef Legrand. Vibrant orange benches and lamps remind the beholder of a living room atmosphere. In winter, those benches are packed in brown wooden boxes for restoration reasons. Our short film interacts with these boxes, that become objects of art themselves.
The Neu-Ulm-born artist Edwin Scharff (1887-1955) inspired the children of our working group with St. Michael School Neu-Ulm to become sculptors themselves. The result is their film “Flying Hands”. The model for the video is the 1927 film “Schaffende Hände” (working hands) by filmmaker Dr. Hans Cürlis, in which Edwin Scharff sculpts the head of his wife, actress Helene Ritscher, in clay. The art historian and cultural film director Hans Cürlis shot a total of 87 short film portraits of painters and sculptors at work in the 1920s and after the Second World War, with a particular focus on their “creative hands”.